She Was

She started her new life ten dollars in debt
 That's all it took to get started back then
 A trip to the courthouse across the state line
 No one could stop her, she'd made up her mind
 He was eighteen, she wasn't
 But she said she was and never thought twice
 Came back home as my daddy's wife
 She just shook her head when her momma said
 "Are you sure he's the one?" She was
 He took a job and farmed on the side
 He made the ends meet, but she kept 'em tied
 Changes were coming to their little world
 She said "What would you like, a boy or a girl?"
 He said "Are you?"
 She said she was and never thought twice
 'Bout takin the next step in building their lives
 Soon there were three and she tried to be
 Everything to us And she was
 Those precious moments turned into years
 In what seemed like the blink of an eye
 I held her hand as I leaned down to ask her
 "Momma, Are you ready to say goodbye?"
 She said she was but she thought twice
 Holdin' my hand as she let go of life
 Daddy always said a woman like her
 Would be hard to give up
 And she was
 She was
 If there ever was a picture of love,
 She was